Africa · ISO 639-3 vai · Glottocode vaii1241
Vai
Vai adds to the Mande languages with its own Vai script and source links to Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone.
- Language family
- Mande
- Likely script
- Vai (Vaii)
- Source status
- not endangered
- Macroarea
- Africa
- Source country codes
- LR · SL
- Reference point
- 7.051, -11.326
Open research question
How are the Vai script and other writing practices actually used today across domains, media and generations?
This question is an assignment for later subject and community-proximate source review, not a claim about a uniform cultural worldview.
Scholarly boundary
The map point is a Glottolog reference point, not a language-area boundary. The script field is a likely Unicode CLDR assignment, not a complete history of orthography. Information on endangerment and countries follows the linked source data and does not replace current local assessment.